Faceless character 1 by Ioana Baltan

About the work
Date of completion:
15 November 2018
Edition type:
Unique work
Classification:
Painting
Medium:
Acrylic on Paper
Dimensions:
29.7×42×0.1 cm

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Artist statement:
My painting tries to come together based on mood and is centred on studying the human being, both in terms of physiognomy and inner feelings. I try to start from an analytical basis of the physiognomic elements of my characters, in order to distort them afterwards, reduce them to mood only, to emphasise their inner feelings. Therefore, my painting is a form of understanding the world, and is influenced both by my perceptions of people, and by music. Music has the role of acknowledging the emotions which will be included. Besides, I tend to use the following techniques as plastic resolutions: colour of surfaces, spontaneous drawing, energetic spots, and extensive usage of “chiaroscuro”. My works present a large variety of inner feelings, trying to place the spectator in the centre of a universe that is both neurotic and full of life and colour. The world embodied in my paintings is a mixture of emotions, life experiences, drama, illusions, reality, ideals and happiness.
... Ioana Baltan

Biography:

Ioana’s paintings explore the human condition through physiognomy in an attempt to expose more profound emotional energies. Instinctive and decisive brushstrokes define her paintings, coupled with subdued tones that emphasise the darker side of the figures.

"My work is focused and inspired by a research period of four years that continues in the present as well. Its main theme is to show and highlight the impact of the exterior environment on the interior life of an individual. My concept has secondary ideas such as: “the limits of the human being”, “suffocation in your own body”, “failure to externalise and communicate”.

Education: National University of Arts, Bucharest (Romania)- Master Degree, 2017 / Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan ( Italy)- Master Degree scholarship, 2017 / National University of Arts, Bucharest ( Romania)- Bachelor Degree, 2015.

2018 - Group exhibition, Candid Art Trust, London, UK / ERGON” and “Mail Art “ volumes,  The Biennial of the Bibliography and Object Books, The National Museum of Romanian Literature.

2017 - Erasmus exhibition, San Carpoforo Church, Milan, Italy. / “Painting/ studio 19 & 34”, group exhibition, The  Visual Arts Centre, Bucharest, Romania

2016 - Art Safari Exhibition”, group exhibition, Go Contemporary Gallery pavilion, Dacia Palace, Bucharest, Romania. / “Art Safari”-artist Presentation, Dacia Palace, Bucharest, Romania, coordinator Ovidiu Baloiu - Go Contemporary Gallery.

Public Collections: “Society”- The Art Museum Targoviste, Romania / “Study –Anima Damnata”, Go Contemporary Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.

Honours and Awards:  “Criterion art prize”, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania, 2015 / “Gheorghe Petrascu", National Arts Biennial The Art Museum Targoviste, Romania, 2014.